WORLD CONFERENCE

Modernizing ERP Development: Leveraging ZK AI Tools and Enterprise Components for iDempiere

In this session, Hawk Chen, a senior consultant from the ZK Framework team, explores the long-standing and evolving technical synergy between ZK and iDempiere. Hawk Chen will share key milestones from the past year’s collaboration, highlighting critical updates to the framework’s foundation—such as Jakarta migration support and modern theme enhancements—that ensure iDempiere remains robust and future-proof.

The presentation will introduce a new suite of open-source components designed to enrich the ERP user experience and demonstrate specialized integration projects that bridge the gap between iDempiere’s core and high-performance enterprise tools. Furthermore, attendees will get an exclusive look at how ZK is embracing the AI era. Hawk Chen will demonstrate cutting-edge AI-assisted development tools, including the ZK DOC MCP and zul Writer, which are designed to significantly accelerate the creation of robust UI extensions and complex business forms.

This session is essential for developers and integrators who want to elevate their application's capabilities, streamline their development workflow, and participate in a vision for a next-generation, AI-driven ERP ecosystem.

What's new?

What's new since last conference?

A quick review of the most prominent features included since the last conference held at Budapest.

iDempiere in Pharmaceutical Cloud offering

Pharmaceutical is regulated industry which require strict compliant software. iDempiere is successfully implemented in Pharma and health care industries by Logilite

From Code to Deploy: How We Really Use AI in iDempiere

AI tools are rapidly changing how we design, develop, test, and implement iDempiere, however each team experiments in isolation, and we rarely compare approaches. This interactive roundtable brings together developers and technical implementers to share concrete, technical ways they are using AI in the iDempiere ecosystem: from code generation and refactoring, to test coverage, migration scripts, data quality checks, documentation, and deployment automation.

The session will start with a short framing of typical AI use cases and open questions (governance, code quality, privacy, licensing), followed by a facilitated “open panel” where participants briefly share how they use AI in their day‑to‑day work with iDempiere. We will collect patterns, tools, and workflows, but also failures and anti‑patterns, and group them into emerging “recipes” the community can build on.

The format is intentionally sales‑free, vendor‑neutral, and focused on learning from real experience: what works, what does not, and where we need better community practices and tooling. Participants will leave with a clearer picture of how peers are using AI today, ideas to improve their own workflows, and suggestions for future community initiatives (plugins, guidelines, or shared experiments).